Titoli in Biografie

Francesco è il primo italiano perché è fondamentale nel costruire l'identità italiana. Perché scrive la prima, splendida poesia in italiano: il Cantico delle Creature. Perché percorre l'Italia, dalle grandi città alla campagna, e inventa il presepe. Cazzullo racconta la vita straordinaria di Francesco, la giovinezza piena di ideali cavallereschi, la rottura con il padre, la spoliazione, l'incontro con il Papa, fino al grande mistero: le stimmate.

In questa biografia dallo stile documentaristico, corredata da fonti storiche, ripercorrerai la vita di uno dei santi più amati. Francesco di Assisi conquista per la sua dolcezza, il suo coraggio, ma soprattutto per il suo essere libero. Un uomo e un santo capace di mettere in discussione il mondo e la società oggi come allora.

La leggenda aurea è una collezione di vite di santi scritta in latino da Iacopo da Varagine, vescovo di Genova e frate domenicano. Fu compilata a partire dal 1260 e l’autore ci lavorò fino alla sua morte, avvenuta nel 1298.

Il cardinale Gerhard Müller racconta dall'interno alcuni degli episodi salienti degli ultimi due pontificati. Una lunga intervista senza censure, a cura della vaticanista Franca Giansoldati, in cui il teologo tedesco spiega la confusione dottrinaria che rischia di soffiare sul fuoco di nuove eresie e affronta i temi più scottanti del papato di Francesco: dalla politica estera del Vaticano alla gestione degli scandali di pedofilia, dalle questioni di genere, aborto e fine vita alla rinuncia di Ratzinger, dalla guerra in Europa al rischio di uno scisma e alla previsione sul prossimo conclave.

In questo audioBook è narrata la vita di papa Roncalli. La ricostruzione minuziosa dei passaggi fondamentali della sua esistenza, le vicende e i dialoghi tratti da documenti e testimonianze dirette, mettono a fuoco la sua infanzia, la giovinezza e poi la formazione in Seminario e il Sacerdozio. E poi gli anni in veste di Nunzio Apostolico attraversando la guerra e i grandi fatti che sconvolsero il XX secolo.

This course will have a profound impact on your faith and thinking. Thomas Aquinas, OP (1225-1274), is one of world history's most influential thinkers. His works indelibly shaped Western thought and Christian belief, and his brilliant ideas continue to resonate in universities and churches everywhere. But his complex thought can often seem inaccessible to most of us. In this superb course, taught by an internationally known Aquinas expert, you will tour his towering thought while gaining powerful insights into your faith.

In this book, C.S. Lewis tells of his search for joy, a spiritual journey that led him from the Christianity of his early youth into atheism and then back to Christianity.

Writer, preacher, counselor, educator, pastor of souls: all of these descriptions and more have been aptly applied to John Henry Newman (1801-1890). Newman's canonization by Pope Francis focuses attention on the extraordinary holiness and inner life of a man who spent most of his earthly years being misunderstood. His trust in God and his willingness to seek the truth eventually convinced him to seek ordination as a Catholic priest.

Saint Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) is one of the most inspiring figures in Christianity: a Doctor of the Church, visionary mystic, powerful composer of hymns, artist, and philosopher. Now, you have the opportunity to know Hildegard intimately in this program on her life and spirituality.

This biography evokes the pervasive importance of religion to Queen Victoria's life, but also that life's centrality to the religion of Victorians around the globe. The first comprehensive exploration of Victoria's religiosity, it shows how moments in her life - from her accession to her marriage and her successive bereavements - enlarged how she defined and lived her faith.

Encounter one of the most influential figures in Christian spirituality. "To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God." Said by Meister Eckhart, these words encapsulate the insight of a timeless philosopher, theologian, author, preacher, and mystic. Eckhart has contributed spiritual direction and knowledge to generations of Christians, yet his wisdom remains unknown to many.

St. John of the Cross is one of the most inspiring figures in the history of Christianity: a saint of profound faith, a compelling mystic, and an immensely gifted poet. Now, you can explore the life, teachings, writings, and reflections of St. John of the Cross.

Paru en 1863, cet ouvrage devenu le plus célèbre de son auteur retrace, avec une clarté toute dix-neuvième, la vie de Jésus telle qu’on peut l’entrevoir à travers les récits qui nous sont parvenus. Entre évocation et enquête, il cherche à distinguer tradition et souvenir, et à restituer une figure dans son cadre historique. Immensément populaire à sa sortie, il eut en France un retentissement comparable à celui qu’une œuvre voisine provoqua en Allemagne. À écouter comme une méditation limpide et exigeante sur une existence qui a façonné l’Occident.

In Confessions, regarded as the first true Western autobiography, Saint Augustine of Hippo lays bare his heart, body, and soul. In this unguarded prayer, a fallible Augustine admits to the indiscretions, selfishness, and licentious obsessions of his youth. He reveals a man of contradictory desires and beliefs, a regretful libertine torn between sin and morality on a spiritual journey toward his conversion to Christianity.

Few Christian thinkers have brought such an array of intellectual, scientific, spiritual, and religious resources to bear on faith and society as Bernard Lonergan (1904-1984). A Jesuit philosopher and theologian, Lonergan worked to integrate faith with the promotion of justice. Taught by one of the world’s leading experts on Lonergan, this 12-lecture course introduces you to the breadth of Lonergan’s thought. You will focus on his method of better knowing yourself through your web of natural, social, and religious “ecologies”.

Explore Thomas Merton’s encounter with Islam and its mystical tradition of Sufism with one of Catholicism’s great scholars. This captivating six-lecture audio course focuses on Merton’s engagement with Islam. Your presenter is Professor Sidney Griffith (Ph.D., Catholic University of America), an expert in Muslim-Christian relations and a lifelong reader of Thomas Merton.

What does it mean to be an imitator of Christ? Find out by exploring the life and legacy of Saint Francis of Assisi and the movements he inspired with one of the world's leading Franciscan experts as your guide.

The mystics show us the deepest recesses of the human spirit. Now, this remarkable series gives you the rare opportunity to take one of the world's leading experts on mysticism as your personal guide. Boston College's Fr. Harvey Egan draws on 50 years of teaching the Christian mystics. Brilliantly taught, his lectures are filled with faithful insights. Under his guidance, you will explore the mystical life by focusing upon 11 significant figures. You will begin with Ignatius of Loyola and his finding of God in all things.

You are invited into a profound and personal contemplative experience in this unique retreat with Thomas Merton, who will summon you toward the recovery of paradise. Presented by gifted professor, author, and musician Sr. Kathleen Deignan, this six-conference series will transform your spiritual imagination and deepen your contemplative consciousness.

John Paul II: How to Understand His Life, Faith and Legacy takes you on a behind-the-scenes look at the pope's life, powerful writings, and ideas of faith, both specifically for Roman Catholicism and the world at large. The first non-Italian pope in hundreds of years, John Paul II was also the first truly global pope, capturing the hearts of the faithful worldwide during his long reign.